Doctor Who: Every 9th Doctor Episode Ranked Worst To Best

For Russell T. Davies' first future episode, The End of the World was incredibly bold. Set in the year five billion, featuring an impressive array of aliens and focusing on - well - the end of the world, for sheer ambition this episode deserves to be higher on the list.

However, the episode's bog standard plot, tonally confused script and nonthreatening villain lets it down. The plot itself boils down to: the Doctor and Rose must resurrect the spaceship's force field to stop the passengers being vaporised.

The central idea is fascinating as the richest aliens gather to watch the Earth's demise in a spectacle of extravagance and sadistic pleasure. Sadly this is not explored in more depth and we are instead given a shallow (in every way possible) villain in Lady Cassandra O'Brien.

The heart breaking end speech as the Doctor admits to Rose: "I'm the last of the Time Lords" does boost this episode higher than maybe it deserves.